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This is just time out. Any parent of a high-maintenance 5-year-old will know that some kids act out, assault their peers, have tantrums and scream and yell. Other kids don’t deserve to be subjected to that.

Edit: To be clear, I’m responding to the quote here. I’m not condoning locking small children in bare rooms alone for hours on end.

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Because a 3 ft by 3 ft by 7 ft upright locking coffin is a PERFECT place for timeout.

Because that’s clearly what I was saying, right?

It does appear to be what you are saying. The linked article is discussing how common it is For schools to lock young children in tiny rooms by themselves.

One room in the article is described as 3x3x7 and another is even smaller at 5 sq feet. These are literally the rooms we are discussing and that you are defending using for timeouts.

Edit: It appears from your edit that you simply may have not read the article and thus did not realize what you were endorsing.

I added the edit about 2 minutes after I made the original post.

It's literally exactly what you said...?

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